To some degree I think this is unavoidable. I have a WordPress plugin that tells me when a link no longer works, and initially I tried to keep up with fixing them. But it would end up taking too much of my time. I have just given up. People need to understand that older pages have links that no longer work.
Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien z <[email protected]>[email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien http://www.google.com/profiles/Ahuka5656 http://about.me/zwilnik “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” - Alan Moore, *V for Vendetta* *Public Key = F6283E7A <https://pgp.mit.edu/>* On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:36 PM Dave Morriss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There's an issue that bothers me from time to time: the longevity of HPR > shows. > > Many shows have notes that refer to external websites. Sometimes the > references are to supplementary material such as Amazon links, the site > with details of the thing being talked about, pictures or scripts made > by the host, links to Git (or other) repositories, etc. > > The issue is that HPR shows have a long life, and we want them to > continue to live on as long as possible -- with their notes. Currently > all shows are on the HPR website and 2000+ are on archive.org. The > oldest show is dated December 2007. In that sort of time scale external > references can disappear. > > If a referenced item is unavailable, and I spot it, I try and find it on > "The Wayback Machine" and make a copy on the HPR server. I then edit the > notes, comment out the original link and point to the copy, usually with > an "Editor's Note". This is quite a lot of work. > > Also, in order to make the archive.org copies of HPR shows as > self-contained as possible I have been copying all of the components and > adjusting notes to refer to these copies. The original method of > uploading just left the original links to the HPR site in the notes. > > Here are a few anecdotes that I remember that might clarify things: > > - A show on compilers by sigflup (1128) contained figures in the form of > JPEG images which had vanished. The images were on the Wayback Machine, > and were copied as described. > > - Jon Kulp's show 1282 contained a reference to an album of pictures on > his server. The server died but Jon was able to recover the pictures. I > placed them on the HPR server and referenced them from the episode. > > - My own show 1204 contained links to a repository on Gitorious, which > has since disappeared. I edited my notes to refer to the the copy of the > repo which I had made on GitLab. > > So, here's my request: can we make efforts to reduce the "vulnerability" > of shows to unavailable links in the future? > > Discuss please :-) > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >
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